Sawdust Furniture Is Nothing to Sneeze At
Yoav Avinoam's sawdust benches and stools are made from the remains from someone else's... well... benches and stools.
Design
Piece-Meal High Heels Let Wearers Design Their Own Shoes
Mix and match the endless possibilities with Sharon Golan’s Mr. Potato-esque DIY shoes. When it comes to fashion, and sustainable fashion, shoes may be one of the worst offenders. Not only do shoe fashions change rapidly, but they also tend to wear out faster than our other articles of clothing. Shoe designers and producers have […]
Armani & Others Pressured to Give Up Deadly Jeans
Versace caved to pressure to stop selling “killer” sandblasted jeans. Will other brands follow suit? Blue jeans are getting uglier by the day. Around Christmas last year we wrote about environmental and social hazards associated with the “jeans capital of the world” in China. We’ve since discovered that giving jeans a distressed look, achieved by […]
The Recycled Plastic Bike that Never Gets a Flat Tire
Dror Peleg’s recycled plastic bike will set you “Frii” from flat tires. You won’t be able to do the Tour de France with this colorful bike designed by Israeli student Dror Peleg, but you will definitely capture everyone’s attention. Like this green toilet also developed in Israel, and Hashim Al Sada’s solar generator developed specifically […]
Modular Toaster Design Makes Toast for the Long Haul
The modular toaster, designed by Hadar Gorelik, is sustainable by virtue of its intended long-term use. Sustainable design is often thought of in terms of upcycled or organic materials, but it is also about what happens to the designed object in the long run. Cardboard furniture, for example, is sustainable not only because it is […]
Organic Computer Design Reminds Us to Take Our Eyes Away From the Screen
Hanging from the ceiling like an ivy plant, Omer Deutsch’s “Secondary Growth” computer design softens the harsh, plastic, traditional work cubicle. If you’re reading this right now, chances are you are a person who spends at least an hour or two a day on a computer (if not more). This has become commonplace practice for […]
Ecco Ukka Weaves Love, Magic and Recycled Materials into Fabric Jewelry
Ecco Ukka’s funky fabric jewelry pieces are green, fashion forward, and comfy all at the same time. It’s not easy to make it cool to be green. Eco conscious designers – who believe that you can have sleek Prada-esque taste and environmental values at the same time – often have a hard time shedding the […]
Meet The Mexican Muslim Tree Huggers
Latin America, once a part of the Spanish Empire, is home to Trees Give Life, the Muslim ran tree planting project. Read more on the tree huggers in Mexico.
Jerusalem Festival of Light 2011 Brings Eco-Art to the Holy City
Echinodermus and Pissenlit–created by TILT. With towering trees made of light, flying acrobats, and psychedelic music, the Jerusalem Festival of Light seemed more like a big carnival for grown-ups than a forum for environmental art. Happily, many of the artists featured at the festival made sure to include sustainability and social responsibility in their designs. […]
Tal Gur’s Daily Chair Finds a New Use for Yesterday’s Irrelevant Newspaper
Yesterday’s news finds new use in Tal Gur’s Daily Chair. The chair is perhaps the most culturally ubiquitous form of furniture, and so it is no wonder that so many designers try to put their own spin on it. Among local environmentally-friendly designers we have already seen Junktion’s upcycled bicycle and window shade chairs, Amir […]
Israel’s “Green Queen” Royally Stamps Her Approval on Eco Design Products
Royally save resources with Green Queen’s eco friendly design products. Green Prophet has encountered several green royals over the past few years, between Jordan’s Queen Rania helping organic farmers and lobbying for environmental education, and H.E. Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Nuaimi (aka The Green Sheikh) penning a monthly column for this very site. But there’s a […]
Ofer Zick’s functional erotic art
Medical device industrial designer creates eco-friendly Amazonian vibrators. Award-winning designer, Ofer Zick, didn’t intend to be a green advocate when he founded ‘ThinkingOfYou – Erotic Icons’, but his grown-up T.O.Y. provides sustainable pleasure nonetheless (see the box below to learn more about what makes adult toys green). As an industrial designer, his specialty is medical […]
Cardboard Mounted Deer Heads for the Eco Conscious Decorator
Enjoy taxidermy without the guilt, with a recycled (and recyclable) cardboard deer head. In centuries past, mounted deer (or other animal) heads were considered a type of trophy – an item that illustrated the skills and capabilities of the hunter who killed the deer. If a man had a deer head on his wall, you […]
Pure Rootz Puts the Preppy in Organic Clothing
The Pure Rootz fashion label brings organic cotton to the Lacoste customer. Whereas organic food has been a relatively easy sell to high-end customers, organic clothing has been a little tougher to get going. Organic goat cheese or cherry tomato confit sound delicious to just about anybody, but organic clothing might call to mind tie-dyed […]
Rewrite’s Soft and Cozy Study Bubble by GamFratesi
Want to get rid of the clutter from your home office? Cozy up in the Rewrite desk. Even when I had a large two room open-concept flat in a Templar’s house in Tel Aviv, I still craved the intimacy of small spaces. Those were the days when I was writing for newspapers, and found my […]